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# dome

«dome» in Mova's school dictionary: **a round roof shaped like half of a ball** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a dome, domes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A dome is a round roof shaped like half of a ball. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#m1)

2) A dome is anything shaped like half a ball, such as a rounded hill or the top of a head. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In stories and history lessons domes sit on cathedrals, mosques, palaces and capitol buildings; in science and maths a dome is a half-sphere, a strong shape that spreads weight evenly. Phrases: «a glass dome», «a snow dome», «the dome of the sky».

### examples

- The cathedral has a huge golden dome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x1)
- We looked up at the painted ceiling inside the dome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x2)
- An igloo is a dome made of snow blocks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x3)
- The tent was shaped like a dome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x4)
- A dome is a strong shape because it spreads the weight all round. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x5)
- The baby's head felt like a soft little dome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x6)
- The cake was covered with a clear plastic dome. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x7)
- He went in, and there was a round cave, like the dome of St. Paul's. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/#x8)

### note

Countable: a dome, two domes. Rhymes with «home»; do not confuse with «doom». A dome is three-dimensional; its flat outline is a semicircle, but the dome itself is half a sphere.

### In the corpora

- [Gold almost never reacts with oxygen or sulphur, so it does not tarnish and is used on domes and picture frames.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/18/)
- [Romans were great engineers, building aqueducts for water, arches, domes and concrete.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/14-rome-the-empire-the-legions-and-the-roads/4/)
- [The Byzantine emperor Justinian built the great church of Hagia Sophia with its huge dome and collected Roman law into one book.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/16-rome-the-fall-of-the-west-and-what-rome-left-us/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «dome» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dome/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.